Soros-Backed Group Targets GOP Anti-Immigration Reformers

A network of donors that pumped $30 million into President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is poised to spend up to $20 million in the 2014 midterm elections to defeat House members who oppose immigration reform, The Washington Post reported.

The Latino Victory Project, which has the backing of labor unions and groups associated with billionaire George Soros, says it is prepared to campaign against 10 lawmakers, whose districts include significant Latino populations, and who oppose overhauling laws that could offer a path toward citizenship for individuals who arrived in the country illegally.

Up to $2 million would be spent in each targeted district, first with the aim of persuading the lawmakers to back immigration reform; and if that doesn't work, the goal would switch to defeating them.

Some House members, such as Republican Jeff Denham of Calif., have already modified their positions to inoculate themselves against the threat, the Post reported.

A network of donors that pumped $30 million into President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is poised to spend up to $20 million in the 2014 midterm elections to defeat House members who oppose immigration reform, The Washington Post reported.